Hw requirement help

**Monarch** · 11-26-2006, 20:15

Its not all about your pc. All the PCs in the game have to be very good to play 3v3 lagless.

**tootee** · 11-27-2006, 10:06

The PC spec of those who have 3v3 lagless is greatly appreciated

**UglyandHasty** · 11-27-2006, 15:20

I played a couple of lagless 3vs3, but also played 3vs3 full lag. I guess it depend on the players you play with. I have CPU 3.4 Ghx, 1 gig ram, 256 meg Video card. I can host lagless 2vs2, i didnt try bigger yet.

edit. all my video setting are to minimum. It really help.

**Kronos** · 11-28-2006, 03:53

Well I can play 4v4 with minimal if any lag and my pc's 2 years old

I currently have a p4 3.0ghz, 1gb ddr 400 ram, ati radeon X300SE 128mb graphics card (gonna need to get a better one to play with good settings in mp), but that works for me fine in 4v4's although i do get the warning that my pc can't handle it at around 4000 men it doesn't seem to make much of a difference playing a game with 6000 men.

the 2 things that make the biggest difference to performance are shadows (u should always have these off or on lowest unless u have a very good pc) and if your using an athlon mp is pretty much outta the question atm until CA fixes that. But if you've got something similar to that then u should have no probs playing 4v4 as long as your playing with reputable ppl who u know have a good intel pc, and haven't put their settings higher than they can handle.

**tootee** · 11-28-2006, 06:34

Originally Posted by Kronos

Well I can play 4v4 with minimal if any lag and my pc's 2 years old

I currently have a p4 3.0ghz, 1gb ddr 400 ram, ati radeon X300SE 128mb graphics card (gonna need to get a better one to play with good settings in mp), but that works for me fine in 4v4's although i do get the warning that my pc can't handle it at around 4000 men it doesn't seem to make much of a difference playing a game with 6000 men.

the 2 things that make the biggest difference to performance are shadows (u should always have these off or on lowest unless u have a very good pc) and if your using an athlon mp is pretty much outta the question atm until CA fixes that. But if you've got something similar to that then u should have no probs playing 4v4 as long as your playing with reputable ppl who u know have a good intel pc, and haven't put their settings higher than they can handle.

really?

i have a p4 2.8GHz, 1GB ddr400, nvidia fx5900XT 128MB, and i cant even play 2v2 online w/o lag (with lowest setting). hmm.. maybe its not me since i didnt try again.

tried custom 4v4, but frame-rate is very bad.. so it seems all i need to do is upgrade my gfx to a better card?

**Kronos** · 11-28-2006, 17:05

Yeah that should do it i think. it's kind of hard to configure the settings if your not playing on absolute minimum tho, as I've played 2v2's with anistropic w/e it is x4, #2 shaders and bloom, unit detail/grass/buldings on highest, antaliasing x2 and genrally fairly good settings like those (minus shadows which I'll always keep to none) with minimal lag, however if i were to try it in a 3v3 my fps drops to 4 lol

But on absolute minimum settings which i'm currently playing mp on (bilinear etc)
i don't get any lag in 3v3's and 4v4's unless it's someone elses fault. U can tell if it's you or someone else as the camera movement is laggy as well. There's another possibility that it's your internet connection, but even 1mb should be enough I would imagine.

**tootee** · 11-29-2006, 18:57

How i wish CA can just post the minimum requirement for a lagless 4v4 online, everywhere i look, its mostly about minimum for SP, and the battles are not going to be massive 8 full armies..

I will

if I upgrade my gfx to a 7600GT which can't allow me to play 4v4..